The same pipeline sometimes succeeds.
Other times it fails mysteriously.
No code changes occurred.
This unpredictability is frustrating.
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Intermittent failures usually indicate external dependencies.
Network instability, data availability timing, or resource contention can cause nondeterministic behavior.
Add retries, timeouts, and dependency health checks. Make failures observable rather than mysterious.
Common mistakes include:
Assuming deterministic environments
Ignoring infrastructure logs
Treating retries as hacks
The takeaway is that reliability requires defensive design.